Torsade Literary Space The Mirrors (part fifty-three)
The Mirrors (part fifty-three) And so for the sake of that wisdom, that had to be witnessed and passed on, Charmante’s eyes had seen the state of her father’s mortgaged house. There would be no money for the fixing up. Her mother’s cancer came, after the check for […]
The Totem-Maker (part twelve)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Two Jealousy (part twelve) If Sente often was read his fortune, he would doubt me, and I would need at once to think of a role for Lom. But we passed unspeaking down a dark and cool hall, the secret pomegranate nature of Sente’s […]
Catastrophe (part forty-eight)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part forty-eight) M. Le Bris, commander of the Suchet, coordinated observations taken on naval ships in the waters of Martinique, and collated them in his report to the Naval Minister, sent by the same mail steamer that […]
My Blog Week: August 6 to August 12
All the Latest from Torsade! Four episodes this week of All Bedlam Courses Past, bringing Honoré’s resignation to his losses, and Clotilde’s shy search for answers, to this chapter section’s conclusion. My Blog […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part sixty-nine)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part sixty-nine) “But to be clear, sir, you are staying with us through tomorrow? If we have Fannie, Miss Nachfolger…” Ebrach, coming down the hallway, left off for Élucide’s pad and pencil. “And […]
Catastrophe (part forty-seven)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part forty-seven) Thus at the limit of the volcano’s action, people died of asphyxiation, not burns. An instantaneous death, as with all who were found mutilated, crushed, burned, carbonized, at the heart of this choking, explosive action. […]
The Totem-Maker (part eleven)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Two Jealousy (part eleven) Lord Sente called through the window. His servants were at the rail, eyes on my mysteries, ears unhearing. Again, I turned fish… And so the gods must demand it. And here was eda, the diminutive. Lom gave a sigh. He […]
The Mirrors (part fifty-two)
The Mirrors (part fifty-two) But these were in her bedroom window, and she slid round the house to peek up at them, her white shoes scuffing dust along the bricks. Her father had said he would buy her a box camera; now, not at the end of the […]
Catastrophe (part forty-six)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part forty-six) Letters, carried a by boat that left Saint-Pierre at six in the morning, and were received that day at Fort-de-France, prove that in other quarters, in houses on other streets than Saint-Jean-de-Dieu, many women had not slept […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part sixty-eight)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part sixty-eight) iii. Worth the Wait There was, and there was not. Urgency, as to her mission. She saw that the card could be played. Winning her point would cost him […]